With Casa Encinos, Architect Lilian Rebollo from the APT arquitectura para todos studio has created a small architectural gem that respects the breathtaking natural context of the Santo Domingo Ocotitlán village situated in the El Tepozteco National Park, in Mexico. The use of local materials, techniques and labour makes the project particularly sustainable.
In their transformation of the old outdoor cinema in the Czech town of Prachatice, Mimosa Architects drew their inspiration from the imagery of film, with its reels and projectors. The complex now has a new face, offering a new attraction for summer evenings with a special focus on urban greenery and maintaining all the charm of its past.
Peruvian architect Marina Vella has designed Casa Entrecopas, a home that draws both inspiration and materiality from its location: the interior of a large historical farm located North of Lima, in Peru. Thanks to the construction techniques and to the local materials used, the result is an architecture that is intrinsically sustainable and in close harmony with the idyllic surrounding landscape.
The refurbishment project of an old house in Lisbon by Portuguese architecture studio Aires Mateus is a journey through the intimacy of the architectural space explored by photographer Ricardo Oliveira Alves who captures its rather sacrosanct atmosphere.
Tortona, crossroad for the motorway and railway networks, midway between Milan and Genoa, is home to some cultural gems built in the 20th century: two large storage sheds with parabolic roofing designed by engineer, Pier Luigi Nervi, which Livegreenblog visited with photographer Gianluca Giordano.
Studio Farris, the architecture practice founded by Italian architect Giuseppe Farris and based in Antwerp, Belgium, has refurbished and expanded the Bruges City Library.
Paraguayan architecture group Culata Jovái restored La Ilona, a "Casa Chorizo" brick guest house located in downtown Asunción, Paraguay, temporary lodgings for immigrants to this country, like the owner who came here 12 years ago.
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